Bug 2007495 - Large label value for the metric kubelet_started_pods_errors_total with label message when there is a error
Summary: Large label value for the metric kubelet_started_pods_errors_total with label...
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Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: None
Product: OpenShift Container Platform
Classification: Red Hat
Component: Node
Version: 4.10
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Unspecified
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medium
Target Milestone: ---
: 4.10.0
Assignee: Sai Ramesh Vanka
QA Contact: Sunil Choudhary
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2021-09-24 05:05 UTC by Jayapriya Pai
Modified: 2022-03-12 04:38 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2022-03-12 04:38:27 UTC
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Github kubernetes kubernetes issues 105163 0 None open Large label value for the metric `kubelet_started_pods_errors_total` with label `message` when there is a error 2021-09-24 05:05:04 UTC
Github openshift kubernetes pull 988 0 None open Bug 2007495: UPSTREAM: 105213: remove StartedPodsErrorsTotal metrice message 2021-10-01 10:05:18 UTC
Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2022:0056 0 None None None 2022-03-12 04:38:46 UTC

Description Jayapriya Pai 2021-09-24 05:05:04 UTC
Description of problem:

While reviewing labels in prometheus noticed the metric kubelet_started_pods_errors_total whose label value is large (700+ characters) since it was an error log message.

Example:

kubelet_started_pods_errors_total{endpoint="https-metrics", instance="10.0.0.3:10250", job="kubelet", message="rpc error: code = Unknown desc = failed to create pod network sandbox k8s_cluster-image-registry-operator-6c786c84-svlhd_openshift-image-registry_eeb66cce-0b91-4c7d-870c-bf02234342cd_0(8381f96f82dd16971b009a09a3470a19766e316236e7337f194d5dcd5dc5e540): error adding pod openshift-image-registry_cluster-image-registry-operator-6c786c84-svlhd to CNI network "multus-cni-network": Multus: [openshift-image-registry/cluster-image-registry-operator-6c786c84-svlhd]: error getting pod: Get "https://[api-int.ci-ln-121bc45-f76d1.origin-ci-int-gce.dev.openshift.com]:6443/api/v1/namespaces/openshift-image-registry/pods/cluster-image-registry-operator-6c786c84-svlhd?timeout=1m0s": dial tcp 10.0.0.2:6443: connect: connection refused", metrics_path="/metrics", namespace="kube-system", node="ci-ln-121bc45-f76d1-qg7xx-master-2", service="kubelet"}

The metric is from https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/blob/v1.22.0-rc.0/pkg/kubelet/kuberuntime/kuberuntime_manager.go#L813

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How reproducible:

Query the metric kubelet_started_pods_errors_total in prometheus UI or through api where kubelet is one of the target in prometheus. If there is error the message size will be very large like above example

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Actual results:

Large label value like the example pasted above

Expected results:

It doesn't look like we should have error/ log message as a metric

Additional info:

Upstream issue created for this https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/issues/105163

Creating the bug so that we don't lose the track about this issue

Comment 5 Sunil Choudhary 2021-12-09 10:52:30 UTC
Verified on 4.10.0-0.nightly-2021-12-06-201335.

$ oc get clusterversion
NAME      VERSION                              AVAILABLE   PROGRESSING   SINCE   STATUS
version   4.10.0-0.nightly-2021-12-06-201335   True        False         3h52m   Cluster version is 4.10.0-0.nightly-2021-12-06-201335

Comment 8 errata-xmlrpc 2022-03-12 04:38:27 UTC
Since the problem described in this bug report should be
resolved in a recent advisory, it has been closed with a
resolution of ERRATA.

For information on the advisory (Moderate: OpenShift Container Platform 4.10.3 security update), and where to find the updated
files, follow the link below.

If the solution does not work for you, open a new bug report.

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2022:0056


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